Market Anarchist Blog Carnival
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary | 1 Comment »I'm delighted to have been asked to host this month's edition of the Market Anarchist Blog Carnival, organized by Francois Tremblay. If you would like to submit a post, please do so here. Carnival rules and an archive of links to ...
Being against “all authority” is silly
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in philosophy | 9 Comments »There are some anarchists who like to make noises against "all authority", no matter what the source or situation. Many of these hail from a decidedly more socialist-anarchist background than I do, and at least a good number of them ...
Renunciation as divorce
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary, philosophy | 4 Comments »More than one person has advised me that I should not renounce my American citizenship as I plan to do. The reasons vary: the inconvenience of losing so much visa-free travel, the loss of ability to do good work for ...
The dark genius of Robert Lindsay
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in people, philosophy | 13 Comments »It's one thing to discuss insane, inhuman philosophies. It's quite another to encounter them, even through our diffuse online medium. One Robert Lindsay, who claims an IQ of 147, responding to some comments of mine at his blog challenging his ridiculous ...
The Profit Motive; A response to Francois Tremblay
Friday, August 29th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in economics, philosophy | 24 Comments »Oh, it's late. Anyway, here's the original link... Workers in general do not care about profits nearly as much as they care about their own wages and well-being. I'm not sure whether or not you fell off the definitional rails here. To ...
My muddy anti-corporate anarchist ethics
Sunday, August 17th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in philosophy | 3 Comments »I've made a couple of posts here so far illustrating how I've taken to refusing work which supports government. To the most recent, Francois Tremblay offered both praise and a question of consistency: I also applaud you, however do you also do ...
The wrong kind of anarchism
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in crime | 5 Comments »Hoo-rah "anarchists" from one of my old home towns go wild! From Anarchist news dot org: Santa Cruz: Condo Windows Smashed Submitted by anon on Mon, 2008-07-14 23:15. Tags: Anarchist Practice On the 4th of July, amidst the tourist frenzy and sounds of fireworks, at ...
Christian Michel: Why I am not a democrat; I prefer freedom
Saturday, July 5th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in people, philosophy | 3 Comments »I recently had the immense pleasure of meeting Christian Michel, organizer for the Libertarian International, the Libertarian Alliance, and ISIL, the International Society for Individual Liberty as well as founder of the website liberalia.com. It is not often, here, that I ...
Educating for anarchism
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary, philosophy | 18 Comments »I was just finishing up at the post office this morning, mailing out the letters I wrote yesterday, when I got a phone call from a client. (Matters of inconsequential fact have been changed to protect identities and my business relationships.) Client: ...
What is murder?
Monday, June 16th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in crime, people, philosophy | 8 Comments »This article and philosophical discussion began as a response to my "Fuck the troops!" post. As that thread has grown rather extensive, and the specific issue of my own (anarchist) definition of murder is related but tangent, I have decided ...
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